Frontier Officials Make Promises to Restore Service, Win Over Customers

The head of Frontier Communications sits down with I-Team's Randy Mac to discuss the bumpy transition from Verizon and customers complaining about disruptions in internet and phone service on the NBC4 News at 5 & 6 on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (Published Tuesday, May 24, 2016)

Two months after taking over landline phone, television and broadband operations from Verizon, an official from Frontier Communications is apologizing for service outages that have left many customers angry and disappointed.

Two weeks ago, company officials had a tense impromptu meeting with angry Frontier customers. Now, it is making promises to restore service and win back confidence even as complaints continue rolling in.

"We absolutely owe the customers who were affected an apology," said Melinda White, Frontier's area president of the west region, which includes California. "I sincerely apologize for this disruption."

White said the company “did not know there would be software gaps at this level.”

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In the last eight weeks, the I-Team has received dozens of complaints about Frontier from people like Lynda Randall.

"It's very frustrating," Randall said.

Unable to use her phone even in an emergency, Randall said Frontier's customer service hasn't been able to help.

She said Frontier's software issues have been fixed, and promises to have service to all affected customers restored within the next seven days. The company will settle all refunds and credits with affected customers by the end of June, she said.

"We will be issuing credits for their time out of service as soon as we get them back on the system," White said.

The company also plans to hire 4,000 employees in California, many of them call service workers, and have them in place by the end of July.